In a media advisory published Aug. 21, 2026, NASA said President Donald J. Trump would award each member of the Artemis II crew the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at a ceremony planned for 11 a.m. EDT on Friday, Aug. 28, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The crew named in the advisory was NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

According to the advisory, the four had completed a 10-day mission around the Moon on April 10. It described the flight as the first crewed test of NASA's Orion spacecraft, saying the astronauts traveled beyond the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years and farther in space than humans had gone before. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman was listed as joining the President and the astronauts at the ceremony.

The advisory said the event would stream live on several platforms and that limited media credentialing was available, with requests due by 5 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, Aug. 25. The planned ceremony date has since passed; the advisory did not state its outcome.